News from March 2016
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: “America needs a new 21st Century tax code that’s built for growth: growing families’ paychecks, growing local businesses and growing America’s economy.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: BOISE, ID - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Boise District Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet Wednesday, March 16, 2016, at the Boise District Office from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Boise at 3948 S. Development Avenue. A public comment period will be held at 11 a.m.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: DENVER - A jury in U.S. District Court in Denver late yesterday found Leilani Marie Ontiveras-Martinez, age 34, of Pueblo, guilty of conspiracy, drug trafficking and firearm charges, U.S. Attorney John Walsh, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Special Agent in Charge Ken Croke ...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to delist the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem, encompassing portions of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Gurpinder Sandhu, 47, of Hercules, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Garland E. Burrell, Jr. to nine years in prison for possession of device-making equipment and aggravated identity theft, United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Ummer Nishad to Serve 4 Months in Prison.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management's New Mexico State Office (BLM) announced today that 19 parcels totaling about 5,325 acres will be offered at its quarterly oil and gas lease sale scheduled for April 20, 2016, at the Marriott Courtyard in Santa Fe, New Mexico. These parcels are distributed over a three...
By Commerce Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - In advance of their first idea forum today, the chairs of the Task Force on Poverty, Opportunity, and Upward Mobility released their mission statement. This mission statement, laying out the goals of the task force, marks the next step in the development of a bold, pro-growth agenda that Republicans will present to the country in the coming months.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Latest Robbery occurred while Defendant was on Supervision for Earlier String of Robberies.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: ROCHESTER, N.Y.-- U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Kenneth Harper, a/k/a Frenchy, a/k/a Pudge, 34, of Rochester, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute 28 grams or more of crack cocaine, and possession of firearms in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, was sentenced to 15 years prison by Chief U.S. District Judge Frank P. Geraci, Jr.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: DALLAS - Mark Lee Cleaton, 34, of Rockwall, Texas, was sentenced yesterday afternoon by U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle to 80 months in federal prison and ordered to pay $343,353.00 in restitution, following his conviction at trial in October 2015 on four counts of wire fraud stemming from an investment fraud scheme he ran, announced U.S. Attorney John Parker of the Northern District of Texas.
By DOL Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: House Education and the Workforce Committee Chairman John Kline (R-MN) issued the following statement after the Department of Labor released unemployment data for February 2016...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: United States Attorney Kenyen R. Brown of the Southern District of Alabama announces today that Barbara Grice of Foley, Alabama, was sentenced to 36 months imprisonment following a November 2015 guilty plea to a charge of possession of a firearm in a school zone.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: MONTGOMERY, AL- Erik Raul Torres, 33, and Marc Oliver Adam, 29, both of southern Florida, pleaded guilty on Thursday, March 3, 2016 in federal court to charges stemming from their operation of a “pill mill" in Opelika, Alabama, announced George L. Beck, Jr., United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama. A “pill mill" is a medical clinic created to sell pills unlawfully, illegally, and for no medical reason.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA - Michael Dean Drew, 43, originally from Jacksonville but now an inmate of the Florida Department of Corrections, was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today for mailing a threatening letter to a federal judge with the intent to extort a thing of value. United States District ...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, A.D. Wright, Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Miami Field Office, and Ric Bradshaw, Sheriff, Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, (PBSO) announce the filing of federal charges against 9 defendants...
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: CHICAGO - A federal jury today convicted an Oak Brook doctor of illegally receiving benefits in exchange for referring elderly patients to Sacred Heart Hospital on Chicago’s West Side.
By DOJ Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: BOSTON - A Jamaica Plain man was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Boston for stealing $70,811 in Social Security benefits.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: The National Park Service invites you to help Keep Glen Canyon Clean and looking its birthday best for the National Park Service Centennial in 2016. A community and partner collaboration to improve resource conditions at Lake Powell will be underway throughout 2016.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 4, 2016
News Release: Superintendent F. Gus Sánchez is pleased to announce the arrival of Mini-DIGIE to Chamizal National Memorial. It will be located in the Memorial's Cultural Center and available to visitors during regular hours of operation, which are from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day of the week, and will stay through March 28, 2016.
